• Current through October 23, 2012

In addition to its other powers, the Authority shall have the power to acquire sites for and to prepare, carry out, acquire, lease, and operate housing projects, as defined in § 6-102.01, and to construct or provide for the construction, reconstruction, improvement, alteration, or repair of any such housing project, or any part thereof, in the District of Columbia.

(June 12, 1934, ch. 465, title II, § 202; June 25, 1938, 52 Stat. 1188, ch. 691, § 5.)

HISTORICAL AND STATUTORY NOTES

Prior Codifications

1981 Ed., § 5-112.

1973 Ed., § 5-113.

Miscellaneous Notes

Report on collections of rent: H.R. 3067, amended by H.R. 99-419, incorporated in Pub. L. 99-190 by § 101(c), the D.C. Appropriation Act, 1986, provided that the Director of the Department of Housing and Community Development shall report every 6 months to the Council of the District of Columbia on collections of rent from public housing stock.

Establishment of District of Columbia Public Housing Advisory Board: See Mayor's Order 89-202, September 8, 1989.